gah!

[hellsphreak]

Yay, Texas is trying to approve a bill allowing for needle exchanging to reduce health care costs. If you are a junkie, at least let us give you a clean needle so we would not have to treat you for HIV or Hepatitis 5 years down the road!

Better yet, let us buy your smack so you don't have to resort to criminal behavior, such as robbing old women, and save us thousands on jail maintenance!

Fucking idiots. Kill. Bill. Nao. kthx.

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yeah

[lordjacknife.livejournal.com]

While the needles seem a bit petty of an idea on their part. Needles are really cheap.

But I wouldn't be opposed to a government, or some sort of legal, place for people to check themselves in and get their high. (Isn't that what a bar is?) But make these people stay there untill their sober again. And give counceling to quit and all that.

sure, why not!

[hellsphreak.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, let's gather around our snortin' and smackin' buddies and throw one big party! Perfectly legal! All we gotta do is stay there until we sober up! Come one, come all! BYOC! BYOMJ! BYOH! Yay! Starts at 9am and lasts until every last one drops! Free clean needle exchanging, absolutely no gimmick! Counseling optional, if you're crazy enough to want to give up this perfectly legal smackdown!

Re: sure, why not!

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly what bars and nightclubs do with alcohol. Hookah places with their smoke. *shrugs* I've never understood why the government picks and chooses which drugs are illegal / legal.

I know the general public won't let alcohol be illegal.

Re: sure, why not!

[hellsphreak.livejournal.com]

Whofore be thou, reveal thyself at once!

:-P

Re: sure, why not!

[kaosimago.livejournal.com]

Yet from what I've seen alcohol can be as damaging as harder drugs, but they won't stop selling it because it's too heavily ingrained in US/Australian culture.

And funny how so many people are against the legalisation of weed because of the risk of psychosis/schizophrenia being triggered off in some people...I guess they've never heard of Korsakoff's Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korsakoff%27s_Syndrome), a debilitating illness with alzheimer-like symptoms (got that from my mummy's PCA handbook, hee).
Guess one of the prime causes of that is? Yah, alcohol.

Both make you groggy and incoherant.
Both make you ill when you have too much.
And both can do a whole lot of damage if you use it for too long.
My theory is that weed is too closely linked to gangsta/hippie/left-wing culture, while alcohol has a long history of being a higher-class drink/drug.


@Hellsphreak...yah, I agree.
While it's good that they're trying to encourage better hygeine habits amongst users, you'd think the money would be better spent on building more advanced rehab-clinics/mental health centers so as to get people off the drugs in the first place.
But yah, they just want to save monies. :(